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Health Services Research articles from August 1996
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Health Services Research archives from August 1996
Managing care, incentives, and information: an exploratory look inside the "black box" of hospital efficiency.
August 1, 1996... The health care system of the United States is undergoing major transformation, both in its delivery and its financing structures. This fundamental change is being driven by a variety of social and economic forces - the growing sensitivity to...
Evaluation of a health promotion demonstration program for the rural elderly.
August 1, 1996... The Medicare program is designed to cover the costs of acute illness, but with few exceptions, it does not cover the cost of health promotion or disease prevention services. The program has been criticized for being "penny-wise and...
Chronic disease, functional health status, and demographics: a multi-dimensional approach to risk adjustment.
August 1, 1996... Medical risk-adjustment models should have five attributes. They should incorporate consumer characteristics related only to permanent health status and use propensity, assign efficient relative costs to risk factors, explain sufficient variance...
Transitions from home to nursing home in a capitated long-term care program: the role of individual support systems.
August 1, 1996... There is growing recognition that the system of long-term care financing and delivery in this country is inadequate. The current system is "patched together from multiple funding streams" (U.S. General Accounting Office 1994), and each program...
The effects of ownership and ownership change on nursing home industry costs.
August 1, 1996... The costs of nursing home care in the United States represent substantial financial burdens on both private individuals and public payers. State Medicaid programs, designed originally to provide temporary acute care coverage for the poor and...
Use of care and subsequent mortality: the importance of gender.
August 1, 1996... Current policy discussions about access have focused on affordable methods to eliminate financial barriers to medical care. Most previous studies of access typically have used the availability of a usual source of care or simply the availability...